I should imagine it’s a difficult one David, I honestly liked the starkness of the cover you put in your previous post. To the point, no frills. But that’s just me, is that going to sell the book? I don’t know.

It’d definitely be easier designing a cover for someone else’s book, Abbas, especially when illustrative ideas like those for Oliver Sacks are concerned. My idea is to go with something like that in my previous post because it’d be easier to live with further down the line. Plus it’s to the point, as you say, which is what I’m aiming for with the content.

Great post, but in my mind book covers aren’t that relevant.
I still believe that we shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover.
Of course it may sell better, but the content will be the same no matter how good is the cover.

You may think this is a bit far from the design subject, but it’s actually not. I have learned to admire book covers that seemed ugly just by liking the content of the book. :)

Yeah, those Oliver Sacks covers are great. Book covers are one of those things that so many of us would love to do but so few of us actually do. Thanks for the link to the archive. That should help me procrastinate some more today!